Talent Acquisition Specialist

We are looking for you
At Star, we're scaling rapidly and building world-class product and engineering teams. We're looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist who will own the recruitment lifecycle – from sourcing to offer – and help us raise the bar for hiring in the market. If you're passionate about finding talent, delivering exceptional candidate experience, and partnering with hiring teams in a dynamic environment, we'd like to have you on board.

What Impact You'll Make

• Source, screen, and evaluate candidates; coordinate interviews, assessments, and offer processes;
• Manage end-to-end hiring from position requisition to offer acceptance, ensuring timelines and quality;
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies: headhunting, Boolean search, referrals, niche channels, communities;
• Maintain a strong pipeline of candidates for current and future hiring needs;
• Act as a point-of-contact for candidates; ensure clear communication and positive experience at each stage;
• Collaborate with hiring managers to define role requirements, ideal skills, and market benchmarks;
• Deliver market insights, salary benchmarks, competitor intelligence, and hiring trends to hiring teams;
• Maintain and update candidate and requisition data in ATS;
• Track recruiting KPIs (time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline health) and generate reports;
• Drive continuous improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and methodologies.

Skills And Experience You Can Bring To This Role

• 2-3 years of IT / technical recruitment experience (full lifecycle);
• Strong knowledge of the Ukrainian & EU IT market, talent landscape, and sourcing channels;
• Proven success in recruiting for a range of technical roles (backend, frontend, data, DevOps, QA, etc);
• Solid interviewing skills; able to assess competencies and soft skills of the candidates;
• High level of communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills;
• Upper-Intermediate English (spoken and written);
• Experience with ATS tools, sourcing technologies, Boolean logic, candidate databases;
• Ability to manage multiple roles concurrently, prioritize effectively.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You take personal ownership and follow through;
• You're confident in your ideas and take initiative rather than waiting for direction;
• You believe in team spirit, helping colleagues, sharing knowledge, and collaborating;
• You have a global mindset, respect diversity, and can work effectively in multicultural settings;
• You approach challenges with optimism, propose solutions (not just problems), and communicate clearly and assertively.

What You'll Get
Regardless of your position or role, we have in place a wide array of benefits including flexible working (hybrid/remote models) and generous time off policies to make it easier for all people to thrive and succeed at Star. On top of that, we offer an extensive rewarding and compensation package, intellectually and creatively stimulating space and some more.

Your holistic wellbeing is central at Star. You'll join a warm and vibrant multinational environment filled with impactful projects, career development opportunities, mentorship and training programs, fun sports activities, workshops, networking and outdoor meet-ups.